The Lincolnshire Bird Club

A flock of 6 spoonbills turned up this morning and have been on Jacksons Marsh or Tennyson's Sands since.

A splendid sight and probably the largest flock recorded here.

Cheers

Kev

hi kev i was told about it by tim this afternoon at the centra been there all day just come home was going to put it on you beat me my ten mins try to see you but been busy john lusby. af a good hols what a good sight to see all them at one time called in at hide before hi come home

The 6 Spoonbills - 5 adults which arrived yesterday +1 already present immature - were present until early afternoon when an overflying helicopter spooked them and they were last seen heading south into the Wash. 1 of the adults carried a combination of 5 Dutch colour rings.

4 Spoonbills present at Gib all day today - mostly on Jacksons. The colour ringed bird is in fact an immature so 4 ads and 2 imms yesterday and 3 ads and 1 colour ringed immature today. There seems to be Spoonbills everywhere at the moment.

Just received a reply on the colour ringed Spoonbill. It was ringed as a nestling in Oosterkwelder, Holland on 24th June 2008. It is the first sighting since it was ringed.
Right leg - yellow/red/green
Left leg - metal/yellow flag/pale green

8 Spoonbills present on Jacksons Marsh this morning including another colour ringed bird.

8 spoonbill still present but flighty at 1400 hrs also
cuckoo
turtle dove
reed warbler
whitethroat etc,
me thinks i have never seen as many as 8 spoonbills at a single site in england before, not sure if that is good or bad, if they are here they are not breeding ??? so is this more bad news !!!
bumped into the very learned freddie johnson, always a pleasure to see him, little bit of banter nice chit chat, a real english gentleman, take care freddie
terry whalin

A pleasure to meet up with you, Terry, and to enjoy a chat as well as enjoying the 8 Spoonbills plus the Little Egrets.
I had arrived solo at first at Jackson's Hide at c 1.00pm - I was surprised to find the hide empty but delighted to see the 8 Spoonbills in front . By c 1.30, 5 other birders had turned up but the Spoonbills then left in the direction of Harvey Hide where Terry and I caught up with them.
4 had relocated to Jackson's again by 2.30pm when I caught up with them again.
Also seen incl. :
3 Little Egrets
3 Grey Herons.

Regards,

Freddy

The new colour ringed Spoonbill that turned up today is a bit of a traveller. It was ringed, like the other 1, as a nestling , at Oosterkwelder in Holland but a year earlier on 5th June 2007. In 2008 it was in Valencia in southern Spain and in 2009 it was on the Atlantic coast of France. Lets hope it breeds successfully next year - at Gib if it likes!!

Tim Bagworth has told me that all 8 Spoonbills are still present this morning if anybody is thinking of going for a look.

Edmund, thanks for posting that so early today. Was wondering where to go and your post made up my mind. As well as seeing so many at once it was good to meet up with you again.

Hugh

Hi

Visited Gibralter Point to see the Spoonbills yesterday afternoon.(15/6) Left at 19.00 and 5 were in front of Harvey's and 1 still on Jackson. Aparently two flew away at lunch time.
Thanks
Malcolm.

All 8 Spoonbills still present at Gib at 08:00 hrs this morning - 7 on Jacksons, 1 on Tennyson Sands.

8 Spoonbills present again today. Also a Green Sandpiper and alot of Turtle Dove activity.

8 Spoonbills still present this morning + 2 Green Sands